From life-endangering fire traps to health hazards and accidents waiting to happen, Matt Allwright is back on the front line with the nation's housing enforcers to investigate what can happen when landlords and tenants fail to take safety seriously.\n\nMatt Allwright investigates a potentially lethal gas boiler. In Sandwell, a young mum's life could be put at risk by shoddy electrics in her home.
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Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 4
Matt Allwright gets a surprise in Stroud when an eviction takes a shocking turn. In Jaywick, things turn violent for housing officers Ian and Rob as they investigate a fly-tippi ...
07-06-2019
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 3
Matt Allwright catches up with an old friend but discovers that although the state of his property has improved, his behaviour might inadvertently be putting his neighbours in d ...
04-06-2019
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 2
Matt Allwright helps a housing officer assist a tenant whose hoarding habit is threatening to spiral out of control, causing problems for both himself and his neighbours. An esc ...
03-06-2019
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 1
Matt Allwright joins housing officer Andrew Weavers in Suffolk and discovers a tenant who, for the past five years, has become a prisoner in his own bedroom. And in Havering, th ...
31-05-2019
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 8
Matt Allwright visits an overcrowded property where lives are at risk, and talks become heated on a street when antisocial behaviour is tackled.
18-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 20
Matt takes a trip to north London to meet a pair of tenants in danger of becoming isolated from their local community. But can a volunteer lunch club help provide a solution? An ...
17-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 19
Matt meets an ageing couple in Wiltshire who are struggling to remain independent in their own home. In Stroud, housing officers help a tenant with a new kitchen, while in Londo ...
16-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 18
Matt is on the beat in Havering with the council's fraud team. In Tendring, housing officers are faced with fly-tipping that is threatening the safety of local residents. Matt m ...
15-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 17
In Croydon, Matt joins housing officer Francis to tackle a derelict house and garden that is threatening to engulf a neighbour's property. In Chichester, two families are hoping ...
14-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 15
Matt Allwright is in Peterborough with housing officers on a visit to a tenant whose recent chip pan fires are causing problems for his neighbours. In Wiltshire, a young mum-to- ...
11-05-2018
BBC 1
Series 4 - Cutdowns: Episode 2
Matt Allwright helps a housing officer assist a tenant whose hoarding habit is threatening to spiral out of control, causing problems for both himself and his neighbours. An esc ...
03-06-2019
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 14
Consumer programme presented by Matt Allwright. The council visits a property where they believe nine people have managed to squeeze in, and there is council help for a grandfat ...
22-06-2017
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 7
Matt Allwright visits a converted house whose landlord isn't playing by the rules, and housing officers smell a rat in a crumbling property.
08-11-2016
BBC 1
Series 3 - Cutdowns: Episode 11
Matt Allwright joins forces with the council and police to investigate a landlord's conversion of unlawful flats, and housing enforcers uncover a hoard of problems when they vis ...
23-06-2017
BBC 1